jroper wrote:
Dear all,
Call-Labs - (A2Billing) have been offered quality routes via a VoIP peering company, however they will not deal with us with anything less than 1 million minutes per month.
Call-Labs (A2Billing) currently only has a small fraction of those minutes. However, they will sign us up if we can show that we have got commitments for that number of minutes. Revenues to Call-Labs go to support the A2Billing project.
If we can land this deal, then we can offer rates of
$0.0075 to about 60% of all USA numbers
$0.0099 to all UK landlines
$0.0075 to all Canada.
The way that they can achieve these rates is by peering to large carriers. They have a database of about 600 million numbers, and when you dial through them, they pass the call to the appropriate carrier who owns the number. Thus calls attract on-net prices.
They claim a ASR of 93%, and good quality. It goes SIP to the Carrier who owns the number you are calling, then on that carrier's network, e.g. call a BT number in the UK, it goes SIP to BT, then on their network to the called number, so we would expect the quality to be business grade. No grey routes.
What I need to happen is for you to write to me at jonathan att asterisk2billing.org with an estimation of number of monthly minutes you would commit to put through Call-Labs to if the rates were as above for UK, USA and Canada.
If we can meet the threshold, we can enable this carrier on the Call-Labs platform and it will be good for all of us.
I promise not to release your email address or private information to the VoIP peering company, or to anyone else.
When I send in our estimation, I will simply put:-
Customer A = 10,000 minutes
Customer B = 2000 minutes
I will not release your details.
With co-operation, and by teaming together, we could enjoy rates that we would not otherwise enjoy as individuals, and be able to offer a competitive product against the big players.
There is a bit more - they have an ENUM server. This means that you can register all your DID, and with a bit of development on our part, we reckon we can deliver calls to each other's DID completely free of charge via the internet.
Yours
Joe Roper
Commercial Director
A2Billing.
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